TAQA to operate Brent system
The Brent System is a partnership between shareholding companies and consists of a proportion of the processing systems and structure on the TAQA-owned/operated Cormorant Alpha platform as well as the 150km pipeline connecting Cormorant Alpha to the BP operated Sullom Voe Oil Terminal in the Shetland Islands. TAQA owns a 24% share in the terminal.
The System is responsible for transporting around 100,000 barrels per day of oil from some 20 North Sea fields, accounting for almost 60% of the Sullom
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